Ways to keep warm - your ideas are needed

[Mortblanc]

I always suspect these dramatic claims. Most are pure sensationalism.

Does the UK have only one distribution point where all fuel comes in and is allocated through the pipe manifold?

That is the only way everyone would run out at the same point in time 6 hours from X.

Ifthere is more than one center then one side of the country would go sort while another place had fuel for a few more days, and some places would never run out just due to normal variation in normal usage.

If the entire UK had been down to 6 hours some large segment of the population somewhere would have been screaming they were already cold.

I know that a nearby city was down to 5 hours of water supply a couple of years back, but that was due to a 10 day power outage to the only water filtration plant in the city. Folks in the suburbs still had water due to being on separate systems and different use patterns.